Another crackerjack month of new tunes on MM, all lovingly compiled and packaged up for you in one sweet playlist ready to download. Here are 33 of our favourite tracks from our May postings and 6 new songs too. No need to thank us. Download Virals – Gloria mp3 (from Coming Up With The Sun EP) Shines bright with an insanely hooky vocal and charged guitar riffs, … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: May 2012
a Download Iamdynamite – Stereo mp3 (from Supermegafantastic) Continue reading Video of the Day: Iamdynamite
Here is a collection of tracks that have found their way into our in-box or on to our iTunes one way or another recently, and which deserve far more time and effort spent on them than we are currently able to give. Plenty to soundtrack your Friday with. Brooklyn’s indie pop three-piece Violens have just released their second LP, True, on Slumberland Records. The album’s … Continue reading Mega Round Up Time
This weekend will be spent standing at the sea’s edge in Devon, in search of some little rays of sunshine, as daughter sprat and I take to the open road with Bing and little Span. Actually, it’s more likely that we will be spent dodging torrential rain showers and drinking a lot of coffee. Still, one can dream. Mass excitement in the small feminine corner … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (11th May)
Videos seem to accumulate in our in-box faster than we have a hope of watching them. However, having sat and watched and watched and watched and then watched some more, this then is our selection of the best we’ve seen. Wet Nuns are a band we like a lot singing songs as they do about women, death and beer. This is the video for Heavens … Continue reading Huge Video Round Up…MM Has Square Eyes!
Here is our cherry picked selection of our favourite downloads from March for you, together with a few new tracks to create a perfect end-of-month mix. Enjoy. Download Thee Exciters – Dinosaur Traffic mp3 (from Perpetual Happening) Psychedelia meets proto-punk Download The Lonesome Savages – All Outta Love mp3 (from All Outta Love 7″) 50s inflected rock’n’roll revamped and updated with elements of the current garage punk sound – … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: March 2012
Vintage loving, stoner metalists, Pontiak are set to kick off a tour of the US and Canada next week. Their new album Echo Ono is out, and label Thrill Jockey have a bonus track from those sessions called Highest Echo that they’re sharing. Download it here. a Continue reading MM Shorts 128: Free Pontiak Track
Been a little while since we’ve rounded up a few of the best tunes that have found their way into our iTunes library recently. So, here is a great way to kick off your Thursday with six tracks gathered from our in-box and our favourite blogs. First up is the brooding psych-rock of Creepoid and a slow burning track from Horse Heaven called Dream Out. … Continue reading Thursday Means Six More Of The Best
Ten million years and eight minutes, the long-awaited follow-up to Caltrop’s much-loved 2008 debut full-length World Class, finds North Carolina’s titans of Southern psych-rock in rarefied form. Simultaneously crushing and uplifting, immerse yourself in the seven and a half minute trip of Blessed. The album is out on April 3rd via Holiday for Quince Records. Download Caltrop – Blessed mp3 (from Ten million years and eight minutes) Continue reading MM Shorts 118: Caltrop
Stripped back, brother and sister two piece White Mystery know how to party with the best of them. Forget the lazy White Stripes comparisons, this duo have their own raw, visceral take on the blues and their new 7″ single is out on April 20 via Perpetrator Records and is called People Power. If I was at SxSW they would be another on my lengthy … Continue reading MM Shorts 117: New From White Mystery
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